Thread: 1.0 vs ARR Areas - A Visual Comparison

Originally Posted by Ransu

Oh, and did I mention that at launch NPC's only repaired your gear to 70%? Ya you had to leave your character logged in and offer a fee on your character who would have a hammer icon to let crafters know you're asking for a repair meaning you had to keep an eye on material costs or you could offer materials......

Ugh. I'd managed to block that bit from my brain.

Also, if you tried to overmeld gear and the overmeld failed, didn't the gear itself break, rather than just the materia?

Originally Posted by SannaR

Wasn't part of the loading problem in the open world of 1.0 due to them having also loaded in the entire ocean that for the most part you wouldn't see? Also the reason there's huge corridors of nothing/samey stuff in 1.0 was to hide lode times.

I mean, 1.x literally had "loading hallways". If you wanted to go to Limsa, you'd start walking across the bridge, cross a boundary, and then the camera would sloooowly progress along the bridge, through the gatehouse, and across the second part of the bridge until you reached Bulwark Hall and the city proper; it would unload one zone and load the next while you were doing that.

And Limsa's loading tunnel specifically was so incredibly long, it was the major factor in why I avoided Limsa as much as I feasibly could in 1.x.

Originally Posted by znushu

all I want is a screengrab from one my favorite place in the old version of game... black shrouds hawthrone hut.

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*Edit: ARR




These aren't really comparable, but since I've been posting both versions in all my posts so far, just decided to add the ARR screenies for consistency.

Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

Feeling really nostalgic for things I've never experienced.

I started playing ARR on PS3 in September 201 and I never got to play 1.0 but I'm just fascinated by the history of the game and 1.0 is like an archeological site for me. Remnants of a Realm and Secrets of a Realm by Speakers of Hydaelyn is probably the best resource out there for this kind of thing honestly.

Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

Feeling really nostalgic for things I've never experienced.

Honestly, that's probably the best option here; you get all of the fun of looking back and going "Huh, that sounds cool in theory!" without having had to actually experience all the downsides.

I mean, it's easy to be vaguely nostalgic about some of it now, from a safe distance (e.g. a decade of linear time), sure. But I am a decade older than I was then, with these annoying things called, like, "job responsibilities" and "adult life" and whatnot. And while I deeply enjoy fighting with content, I suspect I have a lot less patience now for fighting with the game itself in order to actually get to the content.

So I don't think you could pay me to return to 1.x.

Especially not if you dropped me in the Shroud when I got there.

(...that said, I do actually kind of miss the threat that the overworld could present. Which is probably why I actually enjoy Eureka. So maybe I haven't entirely learned my lesson...)

Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

Feeling really nostalgic for things I've never experienced.

If you want to get a basic grasp at how 1.0 played like then just watch these two tutorials for dungeons back then and some other stuff. watch these and you will understand the jist of how it like once you got past the tutorial.

Dzemael Darkhold

Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJAkyH7Xtj8

Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1ONBtLq77I

Part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKq3R0BqEFA

Part 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2352GZ-WgCA

Part 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JSdb2dcD1c

Battle Regime

Tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llfFDu10rds
Example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub0bsD-Icxg

U'Ghamaro Mine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGWw4cYpcEg

Synthesis Guide

Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qh55GNK03A

Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyDkFUvpHOc

Party Recruitment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbya17PW25E

User Interface Customization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CEGfOwYQQI

incase you are wondering, yes. I use to be a 1.0 content creator and kept track of what others creators uploaded at the time. so that's why I can pull up these types of videos so easily.